First Woman's Club Meeting Opens Cedar Heights Season
The Cedar Heights Woman's club held its first winter meeting at Mrs. Thomas Eaton's home with Mrs. W J Sutcliffe assisting. Music featured Miss Bess Bhoemaker and a Paderewski sketch, plus violin by Mrs. Jennie Batta. Papers on nature study and bird migration were read. Next meeting will be a Civic department political gathering at Mrs. J W Brown's home.
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Cedar Heights
James Edwardson
Bird Tribe
Ilson
Sutcliffe Gavn
William + “allen Bryant
Civic Department
Airs
J. W. Brown
Side Talks By Ruth Cameron Reflects On Youth Letters
A column by Ruth Cameron muses on youth and age with quotes from Stevenson. It discusses writing self letters at ages like 50 and 20 to gain perspective, and contemplates what older and younger selves would advise each other about parents and consideration.
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Mother
Stevenson
Father
Kel
Beauty Tips and Home Beauty Ideas
Edna Kent Forbes shares affordable beauty ideas emphasizing growing flowers at home, using geraniums and evergreen branches to create lasting beauty. Tips cover inexpensive remedies for dandruff with crude oil and a freckle treatment recipe, plus reader questions to be sent to The Editor.
Chickens Bring $2.60 Each At Farm Auction
A farm sale near Hudson Iowa sold 49 chickens at auction for about 2.68 dollars per bird. Birds brought 28 to 20 cents per pound, with buyers needing fattening to reach nine pounds to recoup costs. The poultry belonged to Edward Seufferlein and Carl Mastain who plan to move to California this winter. Tremenhaus and Pashby of Waterloo conducted the sale.
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Hudson
Edward Seufferlein
Carl “Mastain
California
Tremenhaus & Pashby
Waterloo
Waterloo Y M C A opens ex servicemen scholarships
Educational plan offers free or low cost scholarships to honorably discharged service members through the Waterloo Y M C A. courses range from penmanship to electrical engineering with general and collegiate options. local committee includes Conrad Him Harry Reed Rev Clinton F Smith and others. correspondence courses available via Y M C A schools and Ames program with 161 courses and support to match individual needs. many ex service men already benefiting from the program with expansion planned at the local association.
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Waterloo Y. M
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Lfe
Federal Vocational Board
Ovhagan Eprons
Conrad Him
Commercial National Bank
Harry Reed
Reed, Tuthill & Reed Law Firm
Clinton F. Smith
First Evangelical Church
E A. Archer
iNlinois Central
Cobagan
Genera
Waterloo Y. C. A
Tory
United Y. M. C. A
Agric
Ames
Waterloo Association
Waterloo
M. Prominent
F. W. Beckman
Harry C. Evans
Yeoman Shield
Des Moines
Howland Hanson
First Baptist Church
Thornburg
Black Hawk Ham and Bacon Sent to Great Britain
W A Gillespie and K A Banford, bath packing company reps from Waterloo, England, predict Black Hawk ham and bacon will reach British tables after government purchase controls are lifted. They praised Waterloo plant, noted strong export interest, and spoke of rapid sales growth once controls end. They visited Waterloo and admired the city and hospitality.
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United Kingdom
W. A. Gillespie
K. A. Banford
Liverpool
England
Bath Packing Company
Waterloo
Great Britain
East
Gillespie
Black
Children May Buy Chautauqua Tickets Through Sunday
Children may obtain single tickets for the International Lrcsum and Chautauqua association convention in the Dairy Cattle Congress arena September 12 to 20 by buying from Sunday school superintendents. Tickets cost 25 cents, half the usual 50 cents, under a new sales plan. Original night September 15 features top entertainers and an appearance by Ralph Dennis. Joy night September 18 replaces the bath, starring Ralph Bingham and troupe. Keighley Broadway players perform Nothing But the Truth on September 13.
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Dairy Cattle Congress
Waterloo
S0me
America
Ralph Dennis
Northwestern University
Hranston
Russia
Ralph Bingham
Keighley
Europe
Charity Martin Sues For Divorce From John Martin
Charity Martin files suit for divorce from John Martin after a marriage in Mankato Minnesota on October 20 1916. She alleges he treated her poorly and she left him. A three year old son is with his maternal grandmother in Irvington Iowa.
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Charity Martin
John Martin
Mankato, Minn
Irvington
Stolen Car Recovered In Bloomfield Pennsylvan ia
Frank Landgraf reported his automobile stolen from a Waterloo garage between Lime and Pine streets a week ago. The car was found abandoned in Bloomfield, Ta. after thieves fled. Repairs will be followed before returning the vehicle to Waterloo. A Los Angeles earthquake shock was felt with no damage reported.
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Stolengar
Frank Landgraf
Lime
Pine
Bloomfield
Waterloo
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Cal
JO Sree Zapiono
Conference in Italy to arrange coal payments to Germany
British, French, Italian and German delegates arrived in Starase, Italy for a conference to set the conditions of payments and advances to be made to Germany for coal deliveries to the Allies.
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Associated Press
Paris
Starase
Italy
Germany
Fruit surveys conflict over fruit prices this season
J. J. Buzzard of Black Hawk Fruit Company disputes earlier fruit condition surveys. He says peaches and pears are cheaper now than they will be soon, with wholesale prices rising 25 to 50 cents a box and forecasts of further sharp increases before mid next week. He urges canning now to minimize costs.
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Black Hawk Fruit Company Foday
J. J. Buzzard
Buzzard
Ex Gov Horace Boies Sick After Waterloo Trip
Former Governor Horace Boies, resting at Long Beach, is recovering from a severe illness soon after arriving home from a Waterloo visit. He had not been able to sit up since departing South Pasadena in extreme heat.
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South Pasadena
Waterloo
H. B. Allan
Horace Boies
Long Beach
Mr. Boies
De La Huerta Avoids Presidential Scrap
Mexico City September 3 Associated Press reports provisional President de la Huerta rejected demands from the national Republican party to remain in office and ignore the September 6 election. The Republicans back Alfredo Robles Dominguez and claim General Alvaro Obregon is ineligible to take office.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Mex
de la Huerta
National Republican Party
Afredo Robles Dominguez
Alvaro Obergon
France Orders Irish Ambassador to Leave France
London reports that George Gavin duffiv, named ambassador of the Irish republic to France, has been given 24 hours to depart by the French government, the official statement announced today.
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Associated Press
London
George Gavin Tdufiv
Irish Republic
France
Anthracite contract terms approved by Wilson
Last night's brief notes signed by anthracite operators and miners finalize a two year contract reflecting the anthracite coal commission award set by President Wilson. Prosecution of 324 contractors marks a government move to clean up war contracts, with DOJ obtaining the action. A $5 million gold shipment from France heads to the United States for Anglo French loan settling due Oct 15. Japan grants dissolution of a Chinese Japanese wartime defense pact. Boston reports 300 longshoremen and 100 railroad workers strike over Cork mayor MacSwiney detention. Peking records a cholera epidemic near Paotingfu south of the capital. Boston notes Charles Penn's liabilities at about $6.95 million per auditor Pride.
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Associated Press
Anthracite Coal Commission
Presilent Wilson
Lington
Bb. C
Department of Justice
New York
France
United States
Pakis
Japan
Boston
MacSwiney
Cork
Peking
Paotingfu
Charles Penn
E. L. Pride
Ponzi
Meddlesome mediocrity must yield to genius says Ensign
Prof Forest C Ensign urged Iowa summer school graduates to value superior endowment over average ability. He warned that education and politics glorify mediocrity while urging future emphasis on developing exceptional talent. Thirty nine certificates were awarded at Iowa University convocation by Dr Thomas Huston MacBride. A Los Angeles firm ordered flood lighting to deter waterfowl at night fields.
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Iowa
City
Forest C. Ensign
Altho
Thomas Huston Macbride
Los Angeles
Fish car to stock Cedar River arrives from Lansing
A carload of game fish will arrive in Waterloo tomorrow morning from Lansing to stock Cedar River. W. E. Albert, state game warden, will supervise transfer with Ed Chapman, state deputy warden. A Casting club committee will assist in distributing the fish and selecting good fishing spots. Species include bass, crappie and sunfish with other varieties in the shipment. thousands of fish expected from the Mississippi River near Lansing.
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Cedar River
Waterloo
Lansing
W. E. Albert
Ed Chapman
Mississippi River
Albert
Conference Called to Plan Help for Livestock Raiser
Representatives of Chicago packers mailed letters to stock raisers bankers and railroad officials across the Midwest and Far West urging attendance at a September 10 conference in Chicago. The aim is to discuss financing for increased livestock production and to learn from Federal Reserve Bank representatives if feasible.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Packers Today
Middle West
Far West
Federal Reserve Banks
Plan to protect and finance live stock industry proposed
A letter from J Ogden Armour and Thomas E Wilson with packers Hale Holden and others urges a better plan to protect and finance the live stock industry to restore confidence and normal food production and stop abnormal shipments of young and breeding livestock. It notes 1920 crops, corn and feeds, but says farmers struggle to secure funds to buy livestock for usual operations.
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J. Ogden Armour
Thomas’ E. Wilson
JL. ¥. Swift
Packers
Hale Holden
Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad
E. O. Trailor
Kirst Trust and BaVings Bank
Chicago
J. 8. Howard
Panama Canal traffic sets record in August
All traffic records for the Panama Canal were broken in August, with 300 ships passing through the waterway and tolls totaling 936,209 dollars.
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Panama
Panama Canal
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